How many books was your seventh grader assigned in seventh grade English?

[Anonymous]

What was the year total for novels and nonfiction? Please name your school if possible— and if not, please say elite private, regular private, parochial, public. (Or home school or anything else I’m missing!)
Novels:
Nonfiction:
School:

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Public school in Virginia. (Not NoVa) 2 novels in 7th, The Giver and Refugee. This was during Covid/remote learning, so I was hoping there’d be more this year in 8th grade. But no, they’ve only been assigned one book and never even finished it. (Had to set it aside to prep for SOLs.)

[Anonymous]

Novels: Peak, Refugee, The Crossover, Touching Spirit Bear
No non-fiction books that I can remember though they did discuss a lot of short clips, passages, etc.
School: Fairfax County Public

[Anonymous]

The Giver
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Outsiders
There was one other but I am drawing a blank right now

Massachusetts- pubic school

[Anonymous]

Aap 7th grade, fcps, no books

[Anonymous]

Are you looking for titles to read? Or more to compare typical reading amounts / subject in various school settings?

My 7th grader's required reading:
Amos Fortune
Number the Stars
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
The Secret Garden
The Door in the Wall
Crispin
A Gathering of Days
The Bronze Bow
Two of the Chronicles of Narnia (The Magician's Nephew and
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

These were the assigned books for our homeschool group in 7th for the literature/writing subject area; 3 weeks per book with discussion, then a paper for each (1-2 pages, usually).

If you're looking for reading recommendations, I liked them all; my student especially liked Crispin and Carry on, Mr. Bowditch (and had already read the whole Chronicles of Narnia series, so those were a re-read).

Plenty of other novels and non-fiction read for fun / without required writing. My kids gravitate toward science / space, nature, art, and history / biography books for non-fiction which we usually find at the library.

If you were looking for comparison sake, just take comfort in encouraging reading during non-school hours (car rides, evenings, weekends, vacations, etc.). A lot of worthwhile reading happens there, and you can have more input in what to put before your kids. And audiobooks make it even easier. Enjoy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school in Virginia. (Not NoVa) 2 novels in 7th, The Giver and Refugee. This was during Covid/remote learning, so I was hoping there’d be more this year in 8th grade. But no, they’ve only been assigned one book and never even finished it. (Had to set it aside to prep for SOLs.)

They are already doing SOL prep? Which district?

[Anonymous]

FCPS--they had to choose 4 books from a list, 2 fiction, 1 historical non-fiction, 1 non-fiction for reading groups. They read a lot of other things though too (short stories, plays, poems, essays).

[Anonymous]

Private school:

I can’t remember first semester. I think it was a lot of character development and short stories.

Second semester:
Brown Girl Dreaming
Night
Dystopian themed short stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
A midsummer nights dream (I think that’s the last one of the year.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school in Virginia. (Not NoVa) 2 novels in 7th, The Giver and Refugee. This was during Covid/remote learning, so I was hoping there’d be more this year in 8th grade. But no, they’ve only been assigned one book and never even finished it. (Had to set it aside to prep for SOLs.)

They are already doing SOL prep? Which district?

They took the writing SOL in March. Southeastern Virginia. Paused on the one novel they were reading all year, and… it appears they will not be going back to it.

[Anonymous]

Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

Oh sorry Private school. This is why we moved out of public school. My first had a public education and I never says him do much in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

Oh sorry Private school. This is why we moved out of public school. My first had a public education and I never says him do much in English.

This is exactly why we’re sending younger sibling to private for middle school. Older sister read 2.75 books for English over three years and never had to write anything about any of them. They discussed, but no writing. So disappointing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the year total for novels and nonfiction? Please name your school if possible— and if not, please say elite private, regular private, parochial, public. (Or home school or anything else I’m missing!)
Novels:
Nonfiction:
School:

Thank you.

Zero. And she was Honors during 3/4 onsite and 1/4 Distance Learning (beginning of Covid). It was appalling.
This was a regular FCPS MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school in Virginia. (Not NoVa) 2 novels in 7th, The Giver and Refugee. This was during Covid/remote learning, so I was hoping there’d be more this year in 8th grade. But no, they’ve only been assigned one book and never even finished it. (Had to set it aside to prep for SOLs.)

They are already doing SOL prep? Which district?

Fairfax HS. Well into SOL prep already.